12 Celebrities Who Had Their First Child After 40

Despite the fact that in most countries doctors recommend that women have their first child before age 30, this margin is moving more and more. Career, failed relationships, problems with conception… there are many reasons why motherhood is delayed.

But when it comes to celebrities, things are always more intense. The fact that a famous woman is a mother after 40 often generates controversy and curiosity in the public.

At the awesome.club we are inspired by the examples of women who find the courage to go against accepted norms, as well as the heroines of our compilation, who risked becoming mothers for the first time after the age of 40 — in Brazil, an exemplary case is that of Ivete Sangalo.

Since 2011, the actress has been in a relationship with one of the most desirable men in Hollywood, Ryan Gosling. During that time, the couple had two daughters, Esmeralda and Amanda Lee. Afterwards, the famous parents got married in secret. In one of the interviews, Eva said that falling in love with Ryan made her want to have children. Now she devotes all her free time to her daughters and is not looking forward to returning to Hollywood.

The English actress and screenwriter, who has won two Oscars, gave birth to her only child, Gaia, at the age of 40, when she married for the second time, to actor Greg Wise, whom she met while filming Sense and Sensibility. In addition to their common daughter, the couple has a son, Tindyebwa Agaba, from Rwanda, who was adopted after his family died.

While married to Tom Cruise, the favorite of millions of girls in the 80s and 90s, Nicole Kidman adopted two children, Isabella Jane and Anthony Connor. After surviving her breakup from Cruise and several romances, Kidman remarried. Her choice was Australian singer and musician Keith Urban. In 2008, when the actress turned 41, the couple had a daughter, Sunday Rose. Two years later, another girl arrived, Faith Margaret, born to a surrogate.

The protagonist of the movie “What Women Love”, as well as several other wonderful productions, Helen Hunt became a mother a month before her 41st birthday. The actress’s two marriages unfortunately failed, but in the second, she had her long-awaited daughter, Makena Ley Gordon. Helen was eager to have a baby and seemed to have already given up all hope of becoming a mother, but before she turned 41, she was given one more opportunity, the last one. As you can see from the photo above, it was worth it.

Glenn Close is a true champion among Oscar-nominated actresses. The most significant among all the roles she played are in the films “Dangerous Liaisons”, “Fatal Attraction” and “101 Dalmatians”. In her third, but not last, marriage, at age 41, Close became a mother for the first and only time. Her daughter, Annie Maude Stark, followed in her footsteps and also became an actress.

In the list of cinematographic achievements of American actress Jane Kachmarek there are more than 40 works, among which “Malcolm in the middle” and “The Big Bang Theory” stand out. Jane was married for 17 years to actor Bradley Whitford, with whom she had three children: Frances Genevieve, who was born when she was 42, George Edward, aged 44, and Mary Louise, aged 47. As the actress often says, the peak of her career occurred just after she had children.

Mary Stuart Masterson is an American actress, screenwriter and director whose peak of popularity occurred in the late 80’s and early 90’s. She is a star with more than 30 films and three marriages to her credit. In the third, with actor Jeremy Davidson, Mary, who was already over 40, had her four children: two boys, aged 43 and 45, and twins, a boy and a girl who were born when she was 46 years old. .

Cheryl Tiegs became the first American top model, at a time when the term “model” was still not well understood and only the bravest girls dared to take pictures in a bikini. Cheryl has repeatedly appeared on the covers of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and Time magazines, and the poster in which she appears in a pink bikini has become a cult of 70s pop culture. She has three children: Zachary, at 44, and twins Theo and Jayden, at 53. But the truth is that the twins were only born through a surrogate.

Actress and member of the society of people with high IQ “Mensa”, Gina Davis has been married three times. But neither her first marriage to an art restorer nor her second marriage to director and actor Jeff Goldblum, with whom she starred in The Fly, did Davis have children. Only when she married a plastic surgeon, Reza Jarrahy, did the star become a mother. At 46, the actress gave birth to her daughter, Alize Keshvar, and at 48, to twins Kian William and Kaiis Steven.

Holly Hunter, winner of an Oscar, for the film “The Piano”, was married for six years to the filmmaker Janusz Kaminski, famous for his work in the films “Schindler’s List”, “War of the Worlds” and “The Rescue of the World”. Private Ryan”. This marriage did not make her a mother, but in the second, with British actor Gordon Macdonald, the actress, at 47, gave birth to twins. Hunter preserves his personal life and generally does not show heirs.

The star of the movies “Just Love”, “The Truman Show” and the series “Law & Order” became a mother a month before her 50th birthday. Laura was married twice: once to actor David Adkins, once to real estate agent Mark Schauer. In her second marriage, she gave birth to a son, Bennett Armistide Schauer. The star masterfully hid her pregnancy and to this day tries to protect her family from the public eye.

Actress Beverly D’Angelo rose to greater fame after filming “Frustrated Vacation” and its four sequels. Her first husband was an Italian aristocrat, Don Lorenzo Salviati, to whom Beverly, unfortunately, did not give an heir. But as a result of the following romance, the actress had two children with the famous actor Al Pacino, the twins Anton James and Olivia Rose. It is a true heroism to give birth for the first time at 49 years old.

We believe that it takes a lot of courage and health to be able to take this step and become a first-time mother after the age of 40. What do you think? Tell us in the comments.